It’s interesting the origin of the meaning demonstration in Latin, and that another word for demon in Latin is genius. The principalities and what not. I bet they’re just aliens and that worshiping them is like worshiping airplanes for uncontacted tribes, but also read Jude… and obey just laws (ones that do not violate consent or conscience).
I just saw greenfuse’s reply. How ironic. But note that they both had pantheons they tried to translate into each other, and the Greeks were not exactly … non-expansionist, yada. Oddly, I would leave that to greenfuse to elucidate, as I’m pretty sure he’s merely pretending his bullshit position, and he is clearly much more eloquent. Let us just note how they killed the philosophers who challenged the “tools of manipulation” of those in power—who tried to take the place of those tools. …as is the repeating theme of history.